Lori Demoss Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Oversee Cross-Border Practice team and collaborate with Department Chair, attorneys and staff, as well as with internal billing departments, coordinating all aspects of practice billing. Coordinate staff workflow and monthly local affiliate counsel invoicing process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Troubleshoot technical issues and assist with planning, set-up, and various other responsibilities related to firm functions held within the local offices and/or offsite locations. Consistently deliver excellent client service both internally and externally. Respond to inquiries and provide timely feedback. Strong computer proficiency (MS Office, document management, time entry, and database software). Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Superior organizational skills including filing, calendaring, and proofreading. Highly organized and self-directed project management – able to prioritize and juggle several projects at once. Time management skills, leadership qualities, and ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with a team. Proficient in all Microsoft applications, including but not limited to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Document Management Systems.

Dallas, Texas

• Provide administrative support for multiple equity shareholders and associate attorneys• Word processing/document management for complex litigation files, including manipulating pdfs• Maintain attorney files and calendars, schedule depositions and make travel arrangements• Prepare expense reports, invoices, status reports, charts, and special projects as assigned• Draft and revise complex confidential legal documents, settlement agreements and pleadings• Monitor compliance with terms and conditions of multiple client and matter-specific agreements • Monthly paper and electronic billing for several clients, across varying billing platforms• Implement specialized or improved billing processes to meet client needs/requirements• Maintain effective relationships with internal and in-house client legal teams• Provide backup assistance for other professional team members as needed• Coordinate Continuing Legal Education (CLE) accreditation and reporting for multiple attorneys• Electronic (CM/ECF) Filing for Local, State, Federal, and Appellate Courts• Maintain files in Document Management System; multitask and meet deadlines• High level of analytical proficiency, acute attention to detail, ability to prioritize• Excellent proofreading, communication and interpersonal skills• Transcription of multi-speaker interviews on a limited basis

Kansas City, Missouri

• Provide administrative support for multiple partners and associate attorneys• Assisted partner with nationwide multi-state Fair Labor Standards Act litigation over claims of minimum wage, overtime and independent misclassification violations involving over 3,000 plaintiffs in three collective actions and many hundreds of individual cases which resulted in a series of favorable settlements for the workers involved • Assisted with landmark federal multi-district litigation (MDL) case against a giant agribusiness company nationwide. The resulting settlement is believed to be the largest agricultural settlement in U.S. history which resolved thousands of cases nationwide• Word processing/document management for complex litigation files, including manipulating pdfs• Maintain attorney files and calendars, schedules, and make travel arrangements• Prepare expense reports, status reports, charts, and special projects as assigned• Draft and revise complex confidential legal documents, settlement agreements and pleadings• Provide backup assistance for other professional team members, staff and receptionist as needed• Electronic (CM/ECF) Filing for Local, State, Federal, and Appellate Courts• Maintain files in Document Management System; multitask; docket and meet deadlines• High level of analytical proficiency, acute attention to detail, ability to prioritize• Excellent proofreading, communication and interpersonal skills• Notary public for both Kansas and Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Provide administrative legal support for multiple equity shareholders and associate attorneys• Word processing/document management for complex litigation files, including manipulating pdfs• Maintain attorney files and calendars, schedule depositions and make travel arrangements• Prepare expense reports, invoices, status reports, charts, and special projects as assigned• Draft and revise complex confidential legal documents, settlement agreements and pleadings• Monitor compliance with terms and conditions of multiple client and matter-specific agreements • Monthly paper and electronic billing for several clients, across varying billing platforms• Create or improve and implement specialized billing processes to meet various client needs• Maintain effective relationships with internal and in-house client legal teams• Provide backup assistance for other professional team members, staff and receptionist as needed• Coordinate Continuing Legal Education (CLE) accreditation and reporting for multiple attorneys• Electronic (CM/ECF) Filing for Local, State, Federal, and Appellate Courts• Maintain files in Document Management System; multitask and meet deadlines• High level of analytical proficiency, acute attention to detail, ability to prioritize• Excellent proofreading, communication and interpersonal skills• Transcription of multi-speaker interviews on a limited basis• Notary public for both Kansas and Missouri

Pittsburg, Kansas

• Provided legal administrative support for Prosecutor • Prepared new case files• Reviewed and analyzed certified driving records, criminal history records, police reports, accident reports, supplements and case evidence on all misdemeanors filed in the City, including DUI,Theft, Domestic Battery, traffic cases, etc., for weekly dockets• Processed all citations, warrants, summonses, subpoenas, plea agreements, diversions, dismissals, bond and probation revocations, appeals, and other court documents• Supervised, trained, and evaluated work of subordinate personnel • Maintained effective relationships with public, attorneys, police/sheriff's departments, and team• Drafted legal documents and correspondence• Discovery, document production and trial preparation• Acted as Victim/Witness Coordinator• Assisted public with complaints, processed mail• Oversaw Community Service Program for offenders• NCIC certified to run criminal history background checks through KBI• Assisted with drafting/updating and ensuring compliance with City Code of Ordinances• Notary public-Kansas

Pittsburg, Ks

Pittsburg, Ks

Non-profit organizationScheduling and calendar management for multiple spay/neuter mobile veterinary clinic locationsAssist Executives/Board of Directors by implementing Donation Software program to track fundraising effortsIndependently determined eligibility of clients for financial assistance based on established criteria Issued vouchers and referrals to multiple veterinarians across several counties

Pittsburg, Ks

Specialized in analyzing medical records and creating chronologies for personal injury cases Drafted legal documents and confidential correspondence for multiple attorneys Drafted and amended real estate contracts (including legal descriptions of property)Drafted and amended Wills and other estate planning documentsScheduled meetings with clients and coordinated depositionsPerformed limited legal research and transcription using Express Scribe Maintained monthly billings for clientsAssisted with general and civil trial practice including: Personal Injury/Automobile AccidentsReal EstateWills/Trusts, Estate and ProbateMunicipal and Employment LawFamily Law/Divorce/Child Support/Custody/AdoptionsBusiness Law/Consumer LawContracts/Corporate LawMedical MalpracticeInsurance/Product LiabilityLandlord/Tenant and Evictions

Pittsburg, Ks

Cross-trained in several departments. Performed multiple duties such as mail sorting, photography order/data entry, masking photographs, creating custom logos, photograph printing, dust spotting, and quality assurance for professional photography lab. Miller's Professional Imaging is the largest professional lab organization in the United States. They provide professional prints and press products for professional photographers in all fifty states. They have a reputation for having the highest quality products, customer service, and technologies in the industry, all of which have contributed to becoming the preferred lab of professional photographers nationwide.

Bachelor Of Science, Family & Consumer Sciences, Business Administration, 3.66/4.00 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Phi Upsilon Omicron Honor Society Treasurer, Student Home Economics Association, Scottish Rite Foundation.

Hs Diploma, Kansas Scholar'S Curriculum, 3.8/4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Kayettes, National Honor Society, Top 10% of class, State of Kansas Honor Scholar, Who's Who Among American High.